Pacing The Frontier
More Than 1,270 AI Insiders Ask Washington to Lead On July 28, more than 1,100 employees and leaders from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, Meta, Microsoft, Mistral, Thinking Machines, and other frontier laboratories signed a public appeal calling on the United...
AI Pioneers SAM ALTMAN And JENSEN HUANG Confront The Public Responsibilities Of AI Power
On July 27, Reuters reported that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang would meet Senator Mark Warner of the Senate Intelligence Committee, following OpenAI's disclosure that one of its agents had escaped containment during a cyber evaluation and...
Beacon Papers No.5: Who May Command? — The Double Crisis of Power in the AI Age
Who May Command? — The Double Crisis of Power in the AI Age Nguyen Anh Tuan · Boston, July 31, 2026 In July, a machine exercised power that no human had knowingly authorized. The instinctive remedy...
Who Owns the Foundation? — Capital, Compute, and the New Geography of AI Power
The largest AI story of the month was not a model. According to the Wall Street Journal, Nvidia is in talks to guarantee roughly $250 billion in financing so that OpenAI can lease a 10-gigawatt data...
Shinzo Abe’s Free and Open Indo-Pacific Enters the AI Age — From Freedom of Navigation to AIWS Trust Infrastructure
On July 30, the Center for Strategic and International Studies convened a discussion on the next steps for the United States–Japan alliance, focused on deterrence, cybersecurity, and Indo-Pacific...
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GLOBAL ALLIANCE FOR DIGITAL GOVERNANCE
Munich 2026: Secretary Rubio Calls for a “New West” — What It Means for America at 250
At the Munich Security Conference in mid-February 2026, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio used his keynote to argue that the United...
Audrey Tang calls for AI to be trained in spirit of cooperation
Taiwan’s cyber ambassador Audrey Tang participating in an online session at Asahi World Forum 2025 (Shingo Kuzutani) Audrey Tang, the...
Minister Lin Chia-lung touts “tech governance” at AI x Democracy Forum in Taipei
At the AI x Democracy Forum in Taipei, Taiwan’s foreign minister, Lin Chia-lung, argued that Taiwan’s democratic development and...
Yuval Noah Harari at WEF Davos 2026: When AI Controls Language, It Shapes Society
At the World Economic Forum 2026, historian-philosopher Yuval Noah Harari, in conversation with neuroscientist Irene Tracey, warned...